SPX is a good show for children. Many creators do comics that are appropriate for them, but not something that you can just pick up at the neighborhood bookstore. Alexis Fajardo's Kid Beowulf is in that category, and I'm looking forward to buying his books (for myself, although I might let my daughter look at [...]
Free Comic Book Day has taken place the first Saturday of May since 2002, which is May 7 this year, the day after Marvel Comics' Thor movie opens. For some strange reason, FCBD has not been declared a national holiday yet, but a family barbecue after a visit to your local store might be appropriate. [...]
Katie Omberg is a young lesbian cartoonist whose Office Bitch webcomic reminds me favorably of the early days of Dykes to Watch Out For. She's also the creator of Gay Kid, a mini-comic about growing up.
Washington City Paper: What type of comic work or cartooning do you do?
Katie Omberg: I have two different projects right [...]
Mark Wheatley lives in suburban Maryland, and has been a professional cartoonist since appearing in Heavy Metal magazine in the late 1970s. To save the City Paper from accumulating excessive research fees, Wheatley provided his "standard bio" for us. It's also worth noting that he was an early supporter of the Small Press Expo and [...]
Tom Arvis was a guest at the February Capicons comic book show, and had a selection of his self-published comics for sale. While chatting with him, he revealed that his comic book Wayout West once had a title that's now becoming familiar as a comic-book-based movie – Cowboys & Aliens. In this interview, along [...]
Jason Little made a big splash in the alternative comics world with his Xeric grant-funded debut, Jack's Luck Runs Out, in 1998. More than a decade later, I can remember being absolutely blown away when I first saw the comic at SPX. The Jack of the title, and the other main characters, were based on [...]
Nick Bertozzi has been working in comics for just over a decade, starting with his self-published, Xeric-grant-financed, map-formatted Boswash in 2000. I thought The Salon, a ghost and murder mystery featuring Cubists like Picasso and Braque, was one of the best graphic novels of 2007, but his nude drawings of Picasso (specifically his penis) led to [...]
Josh Lyman was a guest artist at this month’s Capicons convention, and was taking commissions (by drawing on blank comic covers) and chatting, all this in spite of a case of food poisoning. Lyman most often draws characters in a cartoony, shortened style, first made popular 55 years ago with Little Archie, and recently used [...]
Anthony Del Col and Conor McCreery, the Canadian creators and writers of the comic book Kill Shakespeare, are speaking tomorrow at the Folger Shakespeare Library. The two answered some occasionally tongue-in-cheek questions before their local appearance.
Washington City Paper: Can you sum up your comic book for us in a short paragraph?
Anthony Del Col: Kill Shakespeare is [...]
Whenever I think that I know about all of the local cartoonists, a surprise awaits me. Last week, I got a tip that Bill McKay had a comic book solicited from Moonstone, and judging from his website, was in the D.C. area. A quick e-mail confirmed that he is in the greater metro area, and [...]
